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Karthik Padthe

4 accepted papers

2026

Quagmires in SFT-RL Post-Training: When High SFT Scores Mislead and What to Use Instead

ICLR 2026poster

In post-training for reasoning Large Language Models (LLMs), the current state of practice trains LLMs in two independent stages: Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR, shortened as "RL" below). In this work, we challenge whether high SFT scores transl…

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2026

TV2TV: A Unified Framework for Interleaved Language and Video Generation

CVPR 2026

Video generation models are rapidly advancing, but can still struggle with complex video outputs that require significant semantic branching or repeated high-level reasoning about what should happen next. In this paper, we introduce a new class of omni video-text models that integrate ideas from rec

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2025

Improving Factuality with Explicit Working Memory

ACL 2025long

Large language models can generate factually inaccurate content, a problem known as hallucination. Recent works have built upon retrieved-augmented generation to improve factuality through iterative prompting but these methods are limited by the traditional RAG design. To address these challenges, w…

2025

NaturalReasoning: Reasoning in the Wild with 2.8M Challenging Questions

NeurIPS 2025poster

Scaling reasoning capabilities beyond traditional domains such as math and coding is hindered by the lack of diverse and high-quality questions. To overcome this limitation, we introduce a scalable approach for generating diverse and challenging reasoning questions, accompanied by reference answers.…

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